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and so has president obama. [cheers and applause] now -- now it's our turn to deliver, not just for the president but for our kids, for our grandkids. this election is about their education, their health care, their freedom, their dignity, their hope and their future. are we going to deliver? are we going to keep america moving forward? [audience says yes] >> are we going to hire the guy to finish the job for four more years? how many years? >> four more years! >> how many years? >> four more years. >> you got it. let's get to work, america. god bless you, and god bless the united states of america. >> ifill: that's brian schweitzer the 57-year-old second term governor of montana. everybody seems to be work on a big response and that's what we got from him. very folksy as well. next up former florida governor charlie crist. he siewz used to be a republican -- >> good evening. thank you. what an incredible night. optimism is in the air. and what an honor to be here with you to stand with president barack obama. [
and so has president obama. [cheers and applause] now -- now it's our turn to deliver, not just for the president but for our kids, for our grandkids. this election is about their education, their health care, their freedom, their dignity, their hope and their future. are we going to deliver? are we going to keep america moving forward? [audience says yes] >> are we going to hire the guy to finish the job for four more years? how many years? >> four more years! >> how many...
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they concluded it was a tax, that is what it is and the american people know that president obama has broken the pledge he made. he said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle income americans. gwen:and here is what barack obama said to supporters in ohio today. >> when you hear all these folks saying, oh, no, no, this is a tax, this is a burden on middle-class families, let me tell you, we know because the guy i'm running against tried this in massachusetts and it's working just fine -- [laughter] -- even though now he denies it. basically, what we say is, you know what, if you have health insurance you're all good. if you don't have health insurance, we'll help you get it. gwen: both candidates seem to want to keep moving away from health care, but for different reasons, that didn't happen this week. jan, why did romney weigh in and on this issue this week, especially since he seemed to be contradicting his senior adviser who said exactly the opposite of what he told you? >> i think he had no choice and let's think back to what the supreme court did last thursday. that was a big legal vi
they concluded it was a tax, that is what it is and the american people know that president obama has broken the pledge he made. he said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle income americans. gwen:and here is what barack obama said to supporters in ohio today. >> when you hear all these folks saying, oh, no, no, this is a tax, this is a burden on middle-class families, let me tell you, we know because the guy i'm running against tried this in massachusetts and it's working just fine --...
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they allowed obama to spend his money. get a little bit ahead if you want foin ohio, in early august you won't be able to sustain it in september and october. >> ifill: having a tough race against mitt romney, what is it that you learned other than he's tough has a bigger kitchen en, that you could advise mitt romney, you could advise barack obama -- >> i want to say this. i've been in a lot of campaigns over the years. the romney team is the easiest team to work with. once we suspended our campaign, we sat down with his team, they are the easiest team to work with of any presidential campaign. i go back to 1976. they're professional, they're open to ideas, they integrate things. this whole newt university that we've been doing is their idea, they are totally supportive of working together. i've never seen a team this willing to absorb new ideas and approaches. >> ifill: that's -- you've been doing a little schooling down there by -- interesting idea. speaker, newt gingrich. thank you. we've been -- i guess we're in to the
they allowed obama to spend his money. get a little bit ahead if you want foin ohio, in early august you won't be able to sustain it in september and october. >> ifill: having a tough race against mitt romney, what is it that you learned other than he's tough has a bigger kitchen en, that you could advise mitt romney, you could advise barack obama -- >> i want to say this. i've been in a lot of campaigns over the years. the romney team is the easiest team to work with. once we...
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it's upheld, it stands, it's the of barack obama's domestic agenda. he goes forward with it, it's a very big deal that way. in terms of the liberal rationale, the most important thing is what does it say about john roberts? here's the chief justice who has never been a key fifth vote with the liberals on a major case and it comes in this big matter and it shows him trying to bridge ideological differences. he decided to go with the the obaman administration's secondary argument, on the taxing power. it didn't get a lot of play when we were presenting this in march but it was always in the case, it was always there for him to pluck if he wanted to pluck it. gwen: in the end, how surprised were you about john roberts being the key link pin here? >> i think i was more surprised that it was upheld on the basis of the taxing power than i was that it was john roberts. the last time joan and i were on here, she predicted the supreme court would uphold it. i predicted it wouldn't. clearly someone changed their vote. but i don't think anyone came out of the ar
it's upheld, it stands, it's the of barack obama's domestic agenda. he goes forward with it, it's a very big deal that way. in terms of the liberal rationale, the most important thing is what does it say about john roberts? here's the chief justice who has never been a key fifth vote with the liberals on a major case and it comes in this big matter and it shows him trying to bridge ideological differences. he decided to go with the the obaman administration's secondary argument, on the taxing...
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obama 250,000. romney zero. [ applause ] now, the agreement the administration made with the management to double car mileage that was a good deal, too, it will cut your gas prices in half. your gas bill. no matter what the price is, if you double mileage of your car your bill will be half what it would have been. make it more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions and according to several analyses over the next 20 years it will bring us another half a billion good new jobs in to the american economy. the president's energy st
obama 250,000. romney zero. [ applause ] now, the agreement the administration made with the management to double car mileage that was a good deal, too, it will cut your gas prices in half. your gas bill. no matter what the price is, if you double mileage of your car your bill will be half what it would have been. make it more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions and according to several analyses over the next 20 years it will bring us another half a billion good new jobs in to the...
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president obama was ready after the first debate. he called him out, saying you've had this position before and -- gwen: romnesia. but this puzzled me, some thought romney won all the debates. he had the most to 2k3w5eu7b89 >> just by standing there next to the commander in chief you raise your level because you are actually going toe to toe with the commander in chief -- chief on questions of foreign policy. and interesting, during the debate i was getting all these emails from conservative republicans, one of whom said i'm going to go have another bourbon right now particularly after the president said withdraw from afghanistan on this timetable without questioning it or talking about the commanders on the ground and all the rest. so it was -- well, to me all the sort of neo-cons -- gwen: did that bother them? >> yes. but they're not about to say anything right now. kind of holding their fire. >> partisans and foreign policy experts by myself were really expecting the clash of world views. when you get to a debate, you really want
president obama was ready after the first debate. he called him out, saying you've had this position before and -- gwen: romnesia. but this puzzled me, some thought romney won all the debates. he had the most to 2k3w5eu7b89 >> just by standing there next to the commander in chief you raise your level because you are actually going toe to toe with the commander in chief -- chief on questions of foreign policy. and interesting, during the debate i was getting all these emails from...
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the obama administration had nothing to do with this case. unlike defense of marriage cases in which the justice department has said it will continue to defend the law but no longer -- it will -- you know t. will continue to enforce the law but not defend it in court. gwen: what can we expect to see next, the next development in this case? >> the proponents of proposition 8, remember the state, decided not to defend this. governor schwarzenegger and still governor brown are not defending the law. so it was left to the proponents of prop 8 who got it on the ballot, they have to decide how they're going to appeal. they have the right to go to the full nine circuit court of appeals or go directly to the supreme court. there are tactical reasons for doing both but i think most of the experts think it's better for thome go to the supreme court now, because the longer they wait to get to the supreme court, more states begin to adopt gay marriage. public opinion polls continue to change. so there's a view it's better for the prop 8 advocates and sup
the obama administration had nothing to do with this case. unlike defense of marriage cases in which the justice department has said it will continue to defend the law but no longer -- it will -- you know t. will continue to enforce the law but not defend it in court. gwen: what can we expect to see next, the next development in this case? >> the proponents of proposition 8, remember the state, decided not to defend this. governor schwarzenegger and still governor brown are not defending...
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the race will not have strengthened him in the way that clinton-obama strength and obama. the constant churn of dissatisfaction among republicans. that will harm him in the general election. >> have and we just got into a stage where the republican party -- the only have two parties. the republican party is so broad, by definition, it is never going to satisfy all the various constituents. that is what we saw play out in iowa last night. >> that is true, but there are reasons behind the dissatisfaction. one of them as health care. in the obama era, the thing that came to define opposition to obama's agenda is his health care plan. mitt romney has the misfortune of being the intellectual architect of that plan. the man who designed a version of that in massachusetts. that has been a hurdle for many republicans. they believed the centerpiece of that bad is this health care plan that mitt romney is the godfather of. there are some real issues they're better hard to -- >> we have not mentioned rick santorum. >> he does not have money, a big organization am. he has a tough reco
the race will not have strengthened him in the way that clinton-obama strength and obama. the constant churn of dissatisfaction among republicans. that will harm him in the general election. >> have and we just got into a stage where the republican party -- the only have two parties. the republican party is so broad, by definition, it is never going to satisfy all the various constituents. that is what we saw play out in iowa last night. >> that is true, but there are reasons behind...
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barack obama won florida by four points in 2008, the obama team in chicago looks at this as a very crucial battleground state and already doing a lot of organizing in the state, and gingrich is trying to make the point already he won the most conservative voters in the panhandle well those aren't necessarily the voters a that are going to go with barack obama in november, so this is where we see romney having a strong organization statewide, he did well among latino voters, as we pointed out earlier, that immigration was actually not a motivating factor in the races, so a lot to watch for. >> and, stu, what about november and the lessons? if you are sitting at the white house what are you thinking? >> i think folks in the white house are happy that the republican race is going on indefinitely and that speaker gingrich seems to still be adopting a take no prisoners approach. but i think you have to say this is still a very competitive general election, the president has gotten good news over the past month, both the economic news and the polling data, there is a sense that the republicans a
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states to vote but they believe and they have for months that romney is is the best chance to beat obama and the party is obsessed -- as fred barnes said their party is obsessed with obama almost crazed about the need to send him back to chigo working on his memoirs. >> charlie: we continue this evening with a conversation with actor michael fassbender in "shame" and "the story of bobby sands" w died in prison in a hunger strike. >> i thought i don't want to alienate this guy. this is somebody you would recognize at work, somebody you would see on the subway an every day person, us. i wanted to bring him as close to me as possible. >> charlie: a program note, jim o'neil was here this evening for a taped program seen in its entirety thursday night. tonight politics and michael fassbender when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by se communications om our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: we begin with a look at the republican race awith the north carolina primary in a debate last night the other candidates to
states to vote but they believe and they have for months that romney is is the best chance to beat obama and the party is obsessed -- as fred barnes said their party is obsessed with obama almost crazed about the need to send him back to chigo working on his memoirs. >> charlie: we continue this evening with a conversation with actor michael fassbender in "shame" and "the story of bobby sands" w died in prison in a hunger strike. >> i thought i don't want to...
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. >> rose: what are the advantages he has, al, president obama. >> obama has a couple advantages. mike says the demographics certainly work in his favor. i think he's probably a slightly better candidate than mitt romney. i think, i'll tell you one advantage he does not have that they had last time. i think this, i think the romney campaign is a pretty darn effective group. they've coherent, they seem to have fewer factions than some campaigns have had and i think they are more, they are at least a match for team obama. now, it has to be said, everything mike said about the primaries are right. they beat an incredibly weak field. when they go against broke it's welcome to the nfl. >> rose: on that note thank you very much al hunt, thank you very much mike murphy. >> sure. >> rose: a pleasure. >> thank you. >> rose: i go now to bob white, a long time friend of the mitt romney and also mike leavitt is an adviser to mitt romney. earlier this evening, bob white spoke about the governor's commitment to service and their work at bain capital. as i said mike leavitt is a former utah gove
. >> rose: what are the advantages he has, al, president obama. >> obama has a couple advantages. mike says the demographics certainly work in his favor. i think he's probably a slightly better candidate than mitt romney. i think, i'll tell you one advantage he does not have that they had last time. i think this, i think the romney campaign is a pretty darn effective group. they've coherent, they seem to have fewer factions than some campaigns have had and i think they are more,...
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part of what obama has done successful any and the obama campaign has done successfully is they have created this story that says he is only going to be looking after the rich he people in the white house. >> he doesn't understand because of his life experiences. >> he has to convince people he will bet the main street economy going for everybody, small business, entrepreneur ship and to get there he has to show the motive, he gets the fact it is the small businesses that people rely on, a lot of the employment and be their champion every single day and he has to plan to do it, he doesn' doesn't need te 19-point economic plan but i know how to do and he need a few bumper sticker issues lie the old rick santorum form issue amount manufacturing jobs and things like that so when the romney guy is arguing with the obama person and the undecided voter they both have some ammo to persuade the undecided voter in the economy that's why they need to get on jobs and off medicare. >> rose: are there fewer undecided in this election than most elections? >> the data seems to indicate that there a
part of what obama has done successful any and the obama campaign has done successfully is they have created this story that says he is only going to be looking after the rich he people in the white house. >> he doesn't understand because of his life experiences. >> he has to convince people he will bet the main street economy going for everybody, small business, entrepreneur ship and to get there he has to show the motive, he gets the fact it is the small businesses that people...
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said that michelle obama as a campaigner was more like bill clinton and barack obama was more like hillary clinton. >> that's interesting. she writes in that book that michelle wants the bigness. she wants not to be just politics as usual. there are a lot of people in every campaign, including the obama campaign, that are skilled in politics and they revert to that form. rose: what do you think about this new book by robert kagen about american decline-- or lack of? >> i'm... i'm with bob on... in general about ameran decline. i do not think we're in decline. the cultural d.n.a. of the country is still very strong. the young people very impressive young people. if you look at the social indicators that went bad in the '60s, '70s, and' 80s, they're all heading in the right direction. teenage pregnancy is down. teenage soodz is down. domestic violence is down. crime is down. the divorce rates foreople unde30 a lower than people over 30 after the same years of marriage. incredibly wholesome generation. my joke is they'll have the biggest mid-life crisis in human history in about ten years. >>
said that michelle obama as a campaigner was more like bill clinton and barack obama was more like hillary clinton. >> that's interesting. she writes in that book that michelle wants the bigness. she wants not to be just politics as usual. there are a lot of people in every campaign, including the obama campaign, that are skilled in politics and they revert to that form. rose: what do you think about this new book by robert kagen about american decline-- or lack of? >> i'm... i'm...
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obama has to plan on the obama campaign and improving. the problem solving, the fixer, the guy who is excited with ideas is a very attractive candidate. if they can make the spotlight of the campaign on that with this new interest they're going to generate, they're going to do pretty well. the obama guys will try to use paid advertising and other things to move the campaign into other stuff. but i think we now have a different more competitive race and we'll see what happens. >> rose: katty. >> before i freeze out here today, i'm blaming the cold. the obama campaign has spent millions of dollars successfully making mitt romney unacceptable as a choice to the american public. tonight mitt romney made himself acceptable in the course of a 9 0-minute debate. >> rose: thank you, you're cold. >> it gets better and better. i think we saw people in each party say well obviously our candidate barely has a tongue, we don't know if they'll be able to. but it was skewed and what the obama team had an opportunity to do with a good debate was sort of
obama has to plan on the obama campaign and improving. the problem solving, the fixer, the guy who is excited with ideas is a very attractive candidate. if they can make the spotlight of the campaign on that with this new interest they're going to generate, they're going to do pretty well. the obama guys will try to use paid advertising and other things to move the campaign into other stuff. but i think we now have a different more competitive race and we'll see what happens. >> rose:...
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obama, good guy, wonderful father. it's been great to have had the first african american president. but just not up to it. and, you know, he's a nice guy. i don't blame him, but i want to try something new. >> rose: right. >> now ann romney had a killer line in her speech last night which she to me completely swallowed. and the line was mitt romney will not fail. to me that whole speech should have been that. had she come out and said, "mom will not fail and i know that because here's what he did in college. i know mitt romney will not fail because here's what he did in his first job. i know mitt romney will not fail because here's how he dealt with this crise." she did not build on it at all. i think the obama people were very relieved. that's the one big vulnerability of the president. >> rose: i totally agree to is that. i think the argument he has to make has to do with i can succeed where someone else has failed in the judgment of eye number of people. >> exactly. >> rose: in the judgment of perhaps a winning maj
obama, good guy, wonderful father. it's been great to have had the first african american president. but just not up to it. and, you know, he's a nice guy. i don't blame him, but i want to try something new. >> rose: right. >> now ann romney had a killer line in her speech last night which she to me completely swallowed. and the line was mitt romney will not fail. to me that whole speech should have been that. had she come out and said, "mom will not fail and i know that...
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he's following obama's playbook from last cycle, although he's not raising that kind of money but he's ahead. he's raised $56 million in 2012 and the one closest to him is ron paul having raised $25 million and you cut that in half and you get around where newt gingrich is because he had that surge in december and they had good fund-raising in that last month. so romney is well prepared. you add his cash advantage with his outside committee, friendly committee run by his former aide, who also has a lot of money, and they basically have a good cop-bad cop strategy in their advertising. in florida, romney is the first one up, running $1 million worth of ads already in florida, all positive -- restore our future, the committee with $1 million in ads all negative. gwen: when i was in new hampshire and beth, you were there, too, we both watched the tv and there were not that many ads. the ones run by huntsman folks were by his outside friendly pac. >> the new hampshire numbers are fascinating because i heard the same thing, where are the ads? i went and got the data and everybody pulled the
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barack obama and his team or mitt romney and his team? >> i am a democrat and have been a lifelong democrat. i would -- well, i don't know who the team will be, i would hope tim would agree to stay another term years. >> rose: and you think tim would be ready to leave? >> but i would say -- i happen to support the president in his economic, and his economic team. i believe our crisis was so severe that it was not a four-year fix. if we look at housing today, our housing problem was not created -- it was created by both the democrats and republicans, we had policies that were really obscene, we had in 20,078,000,000 unsold homes in this country, we need a million to a million and a half homes every year to, to accommodate immigration, family formation and replacement. >> rose: everybody says to me warren buffett on down all-round say to me, you know, we will not have an economic recovery until we fix the housing crisis. >> but it is almost fixed, it is just time. we are about a year away from the excess inventory being behind us so you are
barack obama and his team or mitt romney and his team? >> i am a democrat and have been a lifelong democrat. i would -- well, i don't know who the team will be, i would hope tim would agree to stay another term years. >> rose: and you think tim would be ready to leave? >> but i would say -- i happen to support the president in his economic, and his economic team. i believe our crisis was so severe that it was not a four-year fix. if we look at housing today, our housing...
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president obama fights to confident his economic record. many americans remain concerned about mitt romney's private sector background. governor romney recently wrapped up his seven-day trip overseas where he tried to reflect his foreign policy credentials. joining me now from washington, chuck todd. he is the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, and host of "the daily rundown" on msnbc, for all of those reasons and more, i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. >> thank you, their. >> rose: what do we read on these polls from three states on the impact of negative campaigns, negative commercials, of how they are succeeding in defining each other, especially the president defining mitt romney is it. >> right. well, even before we had these polls, there was a sense-- you talked to both campaigns and just sort of a lot of times it's what campaigns say and what they don't say that can tell you a lot. you know, you keep hearing out of the romney campaign, charlie, that there's going to be time to introduce mitt romney to
president obama fights to confident his economic record. many americans remain concerned about mitt romney's private sector background. governor romney recently wrapped up his seven-day trip overseas where he tried to reflect his foreign policy credentials. joining me now from washington, chuck todd. he is the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, and host of "the daily rundown" on msnbc, for all of those reasons and more, i am pleased to have him back on this program....
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president obama's health care for the nation is. and to the degree that they can make this a debate about obama's law not romney's massachusetts experiment they will. >> woodruff: so they changed their mind. and what provoked the change of mind? what happened? >> because most of the conservatives on the ballot and raising money and contributing to romney want this to be a mandate election on health care and taxation. republicans believe that once you take the health care law and the mandate-- which was unpopular in the polls already-- and add a taxing provision to it as the supreme court said, you put two things together that benefit republicans generally. the mandate is unpopular and if it's called a tax, republicans on the political wing believe that's a double victory so romney has moved from "penalty" to "tax" largely to reflect that ideological perspective. >> woodruff: major, how does this criticism we're seeing, we saw the "wall street journal" lead editorial today and otherings like rupert murdoch saying they're dissatisfied
president obama's health care for the nation is. and to the degree that they can make this a debate about obama's law not romney's massachusetts experiment they will. >> woodruff: so they changed their mind. and what provoked the change of mind? what happened? >> because most of the conservatives on the ballot and raising money and contributing to romney want this to be a mandate election on health care and taxation. republicans believe that once you take the health care law and the...
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. >> rose: what would a second obama term look like and i think they may have to switch to that to win the election if i am right some of the political class focuses on just aren't going to be disqualifying for a lot of voters who are unhappy with the economy currently. >> we continue this evening with a conversation with ray mabus, secretary of the navy, this new defense strategy which the president announced in january in which he was intimately involved in crafting and had all of the joint chiefs, all the service secretaries, secretary of defense, very involved in this, is mainly a maritime strategy, it focuses on the western pacific, it focuses on the arabian gulf region, both of which are maritime entities and it places i think additional responsibility on the navy and marine corpse, but, corp, with but it is a continuation of our historic role .. we conclude with a newby ography about general eisenhower by jean smith, eisenhower in war and peace. >> he worked a seven-day week from the time he graduated from west point and he was focused, he was able, he was intelligent, he had a
. >> rose: what would a second obama term look like and i think they may have to switch to that to win the election if i am right some of the political class focuses on just aren't going to be disqualifying for a lot of voters who are unhappy with the economy currently. >> we continue this evening with a conversation with ray mabus, secretary of the navy, this new defense strategy which the president announced in january in which he was intimately involved in crafting and had all of...
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you've also been talking to the obama camp in chicago. there s there a chance they'll take a moment to sell health care reform in the country? >> you heard what the president said when he talked about stories of health care reform saying it's not about the politics but the people behind it. that was the message communicated to the campaign volunteers. they had an all staff meeting in chicago. people described it as emotional and people really wanted to start telling the stories of people helped by health care reform. you'll see a lot of that on television, certainly on the internet, youtube videos, that thing. and michelle obama is the first campaign... first person on the campaign trail. she did an event in memphis and she said "get the details of health care reform. help people understand what's in it. she went through line by line and talked about the things in it. that will be the new type of message communication here for them. >> woodruff: just quickly, a sense that conservatives energized by this? >> you're seeing it not just from
you've also been talking to the obama camp in chicago. there s there a chance they'll take a moment to sell health care reform in the country? >> you heard what the president said when he talked about stories of health care reform saying it's not about the politics but the people behind it. that was the message communicated to the campaign volunteers. they had an all staff meeting in chicago. people described it as emotional and people really wanted to start telling the stories of people...
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they have a new enemy, which is barack obama. this was a good way to kick off romneyment he's got a big league in new hampshire. they had this plan and very quiet, only romney and the campaign manager and mccain knew about it for a while. they dropped it. it was a great way for the romney campaign to kind of steal the 36 hours after what was a great night for rick santorum in iowa. but the romney campaign had this ready to go, grabbed the news cycle. rick santorum, who has a thread bear campaign wasn't on tv. he was kind of a ghost for a while until later that evening. it was great stage managing except when he got to new hampshire, kind of lackluster event. nevertheless, mccain has now gone out with him and he's helping romney attack santorum on the question of earmarks, which is helpful. so former enemies but now an ally who's by his side. >> julianna, seriously, the two things mitt romney has going for him right now are the idea of -- or aura of inevitability and aura of electability. is that something that counts in new hamps
they have a new enemy, which is barack obama. this was a good way to kick off romneyment he's got a big league in new hampshire. they had this plan and very quiet, only romney and the campaign manager and mccain knew about it for a while. they dropped it. it was a great way for the romney campaign to kind of steal the 36 hours after what was a great night for rick santorum in iowa. but the romney campaign had this ready to go, grabbed the news cycle. rick santorum, who has a thread bear...
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president obama has walked with seniors. president obama's health care law won the support of the a.a.r.p. because it tran sends medicare without cutting benefits and helps millions of seniors with free preventative care and more affording prescription drugs. (cheers and applause) president obama has walked with our young people, america's future. he has made investments in the future that face enormous dividends for our nation. from government funding for pell grant scholarships to make college more affordable to head start to community college to job training president obama has walked with america's women. (cheers and applause) president obama is helping women access preventative health services like cancer screenings, contraception and well women exams. meanwhile mitt romney and republicans in congress would like to roll back a woman's access to important preventative care. turn over women's health decisions to their doctors and defund planned parenthood. and president obama has walked with the hispanic community. becaus
president obama has walked with seniors. president obama's health care law won the support of the a.a.r.p. because it tran sends medicare without cutting benefits and helps millions of seniors with free preventative care and more affording prescription drugs. (cheers and applause) president obama has walked with our young people, america's future. he has made investments in the future that face enormous dividends for our nation. from government funding for pell grant scholarships to make...
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and you hear president obama talk about that in the campaign trail. these are the final days, of my final campaign. you begin to look ahead not to, every first term president wants the same thing, a second term. every second term president is thinking about one thing, and that's their legacy. what are they going to leave behind when they are done, what will history say about them? so the minute you've won that second term, instead of relief, i think you begin to start thinking about the judge that will be even harsher than the voters, come four years hence. and you realize that the clock is ticking so fast. somebody told me yesterday that a second term president has fourteen good months at the beginning of his term. and fourteen good months at the end, and the middle is a mush. and i have to figure out how to use that to achieve something that's meaningful. >> i've been struck recently, in the last four or five presidential campaigns, how it's become kind of de rigueur standard to promise the voters who you are running for the first time what you will
and you hear president obama talk about that in the campaign trail. these are the final days, of my final campaign. you begin to look ahead not to, every first term president wants the same thing, a second term. every second term president is thinking about one thing, and that's their legacy. what are they going to leave behind when they are done, what will history say about them? so the minute you've won that second term, instead of relief, i think you begin to start thinking about the judge...
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. >> tom: education is one of the many issues president obama and governor romney sparred about in their presidential campaign debates. and tonight's commentator says there's an entire group of students that have been short- changed. he's todd buccholz, author of "rush: why you need and love the rat race." >> our schools have cheated and discriminated against a generation of students. when i was in high school, they divided us into two tracks. the college prep kids read "beowulf" and "macbeth"; the other kids were shunted into so- called vocational education, where they learned how to build a house, change spark plugs, and wire air conditioners. of course now, most of us college kids can't even explain how a toaster works. so where was the cheating and discrimination? those vocational kids weren't taught enough. they should've been taught, not just how to build and fix things, but how to run a business. if you've been trained as a plumber and can snake a pipe, you might be able to make ends meet for your family. but if you've also learned how to open your own plumbing business, you can p
. >> tom: education is one of the many issues president obama and governor romney sparred about in their presidential campaign debates. and tonight's commentator says there's an entire group of students that have been short- changed. he's todd buccholz, author of "rush: why you need and love the rat race." >> our schools have cheated and discriminated against a generation of students. when i was in high school, they divided us into two tracks. the college prep kids read...
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president obama waited until 30 minute into the debate to first talk about a voter. mitt romney was talking about his five sons. he talked about ann romney being on the trail. there were a lot of little moments in the debate where he was clearly trying to bring out the more human side to appeal to voters, womens, independents, people who you say may have seen him as a little stiff. >> woodruff: is it too early to ask both of you how you think the campaigns sense this debate is going to change anything going forward in the days to come, ari? >> just hearing from the romney campaign it sound like they got what they wanted to out of tonight. they, obviously, have work to do. they're behind in the polls. they need to make up a lot of ground. but i don't think anybody scored a lethal blow tonight. i don't think anyone made a huge gaffe tonight. but from the perspective of the romney campaign they feel like they accomplished what they needed to do. >> ifill: scott, how many eggs did the obama campaign put in this basket? >> negotiate the obama campaign was really just tryi
president obama waited until 30 minute into the debate to first talk about a voter. mitt romney was talking about his five sons. he talked about ann romney being on the trail. there were a lot of little moments in the debate where he was clearly trying to bring out the more human side to appeal to voters, womens, independents, people who you say may have seen him as a little stiff. >> woodruff: is it too early to ask both of you how you think the campaigns sense this debate is going to...
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>>it is bad for obama. the rule of thumb was 150,000 jobs a month, the break even point, you want to be above that if you are the incumbent. we have had three months in a row of bad numbers so now to catch up to get to the point where the 34ri9 call science models or many say it is an advantage for him or at least not a complete negative he has to have a quarter million job growth for the rest of the year. that seems unlikely. so you go not election thinking that the economy will be a pretty strong fleing fiv. >> woodruff: pretty strong negative. >> yeah, i would think so and i have to say the done i had-- downside risks are better than the upside risks. it is lard to see the economy picking up. it is easy to see europe having something really negative happen. if europe collapse, if the euro coulds las, more than a greece withdrawal i think is extremely hard for the president to get reelected. it is sort of out of his hands. but up until now, it's a negative with a euro collapse. >> woodruff: we heard earli
>>it is bad for obama. the rule of thumb was 150,000 jobs a month, the break even point, you want to be above that if you are the incumbent. we have had three months in a row of bad numbers so now to catch up to get to the point where the 34ri9 call science models or many say it is an advantage for him or at least not a complete negative he has to have a quarter million job growth for the rest of the year. that seems unlikely. so you go not election thinking that the economy will be a...
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sportsmen for obama. all being recruited as part of the obama ground game. they meet online and then gather in the real world. >> i think we're expecting a few more people who are going to get started so we can keep on with our agenda. >> sreenivasan: this group of volunteers who cared about lesbian, gay, by sexual and transgender issues was preparing to go out and canvass local voters in support of the president. it seems whether it's dashboard or the mobile apps, they serve two purposes: one, to make sure your teams are in communication with one another and another to learn about the voters you're going out and reaching. >> absolutely. we're always going to be collecting information. because that's how, you know, we extend our reach. that's how we can continue to communicate with that person. just one phone call or one email is not going to get that person to be... to the polls on election day. >> sreenivasan: for years campaigns have dreamed of being able to take the information they gather through canvassing and phone banking, social media and email grou
sportsmen for obama. all being recruited as part of the obama ground game. they meet online and then gather in the real world. >> i think we're expecting a few more people who are going to get started so we can keep on with our agenda. >> sreenivasan: this group of volunteers who cared about lesbian, gay, by sexual and transgender issues was preparing to go out and canvass local voters in support of the president. it seems whether it's dashboard or the mobile apps, they serve two...
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barack obama is seeking a second term in office. who would he be happiest to face in the elections in november? >> the assumption in the white house was that mitt romney will likely be the nominee at the end of the day. the sense is the white house probably would rather not face mitt romney. he is a businessman and somebody who will appeal more to the center of independent voters, theoretically. a third of voters consider themselves independent. the white house would be delighted if it was newt gingrich or rick santorum. santorum, because they could compartmentalize him. gingrich, because he has a lot of baggage and a checkered political career. so i think that the white house would be delighted if it were gingrich. it will probably be mr. romney. >> let's get up to speed on events in afghanistan. six british soldiers are missing, presumed dead. the vehicle in which they were traveling has yet to be recovered. such is the atrocity of the explosion yesterday. we received these comments from the british prime minister david cameron. >
barack obama is seeking a second term in office. who would he be happiest to face in the elections in november? >> the assumption in the white house was that mitt romney will likely be the nominee at the end of the day. the sense is the white house probably would rather not face mitt romney. he is a businessman and somebody who will appeal more to the center of independent voters, theoretically. a third of voters consider themselves independent. the white house would be delighted if it...
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in the presidential race, the obama campaign challenged republican mitt romney to release at least five years of his tax returns. romney's campaign said no, and accused the president of avoiding issues that really matter. romney said yesterday he's paid at least 13% of his income in taxes every year for the past decade. wall street finished this friday with modest gains. the dow jones industrial average was up 25 points to close at 13,275. the nasdaq rose 14 points to close at 3,076. for the week, the dow gained half a percent; the nasdaq rose nearly 2%. also today, facebook stock finished just above $19. it's lost half its value since the company's initial public offering back in may. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: three women from the russian punk rock band called pussy riot were sentenced to jail time today for their protest in a church against president vladimir putin. it's a case that has sparked worldwide attention. jonathan rugman of independent television news reports from moscow. >> reporter: this afternoon, the three punk band protes
in the presidential race, the obama campaign challenged republican mitt romney to release at least five years of his tax returns. romney's campaign said no, and accused the president of avoiding issues that really matter. romney said yesterday he's paid at least 13% of his income in taxes every year for the past decade. wall street finished this friday with modest gains. the dow jones industrial average was up 25 points to close at 13,275. the nasdaq rose 14 points to close at 3,076. for the...
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i want to be beat obama. i believe i can. i believe i'm the one person in this race who actually can beat the president. >> woodruff: the former massachusetts governor pulled off a victory the maine caucuses taking 39% of the vote. texas congressman ron paul placed second with 36%. rick santorum annuity gingrich finished far back. fewer than 5600 people voted, and one county delayed its caucuses due to a forecast of snow. romney also won saturday's straw poll of the conservative political action conference in washington. with 38% to 31% for santorum. but sunday on cnn, santorum cast doubt on how romney won. >> you know, those polls at c- pac as you know for years ron paul has won those because he just trucks in a lot of people. pays for their ticket. they come in and vote. then they leave. we didn't do that. we don't do that. i don't try to rig straw polls. i know that there were some.... >> do you think that.... >> i'm happy with the announcement. well, you have to talk to the romney campaign and how many tickets they've bou
i want to be beat obama. i believe i can. i believe i'm the one person in this race who actually can beat the president. >> woodruff: the former massachusetts governor pulled off a victory the maine caucuses taking 39% of the vote. texas congressman ron paul placed second with 36%. rick santorum annuity gingrich finished far back. fewer than 5600 people voted, and one county delayed its caucuses due to a forecast of snow. romney also won saturday's straw poll of the conservative political...
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that's where president obama was today. campaigning at ohio state university on the last day buckeyes can register to vote. president obama has seen his previous lead in the polls almost evaporate and is on the offense after a lack luster debate performance last week. he admitted as much at a fund-raiser last night in san francisco. >> after the debate, i had a bunch of folks come to me. don't be so polite. don't be so nice. ( cheers and applause ) but i want everybody to understand something. what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. governor romney's plan is to let wall street run wild again but he's going to bring the hammer down on sesame street. >> ifill: the obama campaign thought to exploit the sesame street reference today with a new television ad >> mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about. it's sesame street. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs >> mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest >> ifill: sesame street workshop asked the obama campaign to
that's where president obama was today. campaigning at ohio state university on the last day buckeyes can register to vote. president obama has seen his previous lead in the polls almost evaporate and is on the offense after a lack luster debate performance last week. he admitted as much at a fund-raiser last night in san francisco. >> after the debate, i had a bunch of folks come to me. don't be so polite. don't be so nice. ( cheers and applause ) but i want everybody to understand...
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they know who the obama supporters are. it's a call from a friend or a neighbor asking them to turn out that we think will be the most effective at the end of the day. >> suarez: even in the final hours before the polls open nationwide, the obama campaign says it believes there are still small pockets of voters out there who can be convinced to cast a ballot and cast a ballot for their man. my colleague margaret warner got a very different view of the same electoral landscape from the romney campaign. >> warner: after a frantic day-long campaign swing, mitt romney returns to boston tonight to await the voters' verdict on his seven-year quest for the presidency. with polls showing president obama enjoying a slight edge in several crucial battle ground states, romney's strategists are counting on the undecided independent voters breaking his way. >> i think the momentum remains with governor romney. >> warner: a senior advisor to the romney campaign. >> it's a close race. we knew it would be close. i believe at the end of the
they know who the obama supporters are. it's a call from a friend or a neighbor asking them to turn out that we think will be the most effective at the end of the day. >> suarez: even in the final hours before the polls open nationwide, the obama campaign says it believes there are still small pockets of voters out there who can be convinced to cast a ballot and cast a ballot for their man. my colleague margaret warner got a very different view of the same electoral landscape from the...
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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama visited the heavily fire damaged areas of colorado today after he declared the state a major disaster area. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, kwame holman has the latest on the wildfire that's destroyed more than 300 homes in colorado springs, the state's second largest city. >> woodruff: we talk to the european union ambassador about the tentative deal reached in brussels today to create a bank rescue fund. >> brown: ray suarez explores the road ahead after the landmark supreme court health care decision with representatives from the obama and romney presidential campaigns. >> woodruff: mark shields and michael gerson analyze the week's news. >> brown: margaret warner profiles julian cardona. a mexican photojournalist who's documented the corrosive effect of drug violence on his hometown of juarez. >> woodruff: and we close with some personal reflections from margaret about what she's seen and experienced on her reporting trip. >> the fears is pretty
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama visited the heavily fire damaged areas of colorado today after he declared the state a major disaster area. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, kwame holman has the latest on the wildfire that's destroyed more than 300 homes in colorado springs, the state's second largest city. >> woodruff: we talk to the european union ambassador...
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it's harder to rattle barack obama rather than rattle newt gingrich. my view of the presidential politics is they have to drive the same messages in the advertising to break through. romney did that beautully in the debates. he did it on the stump, he did it remorselessly. he was a killer politician. >> charlie: if mitt romney if he's the nominee hurting himself about the negative campaign because he's driving away npts - naptentindependence that might e crucial. >> among the independentent indf you compare where they are now to other primary battles, all on of these candidates, gingrich and romney even i think santorum are in much worse shape among the dependents than say obama and clinton and mccain were back in 08. the one thing that romney might be spared, although if newt has anything to say about it he won't be is havin to talk to that key party base so clearly that the independents are hearin that. it's dangerous. >> charlie: one second. no go ahead and we'll come back. >> one tn is that's where this timetable becomes critical. income the longer
it's harder to rattle barack obama rather than rattle newt gingrich. my view of the presidential politics is they have to drive the same messages in the advertising to break through. romney did that beautully in the debates. he did it on the stump, he did it remorselessly. he was a killer politician. >> charlie: if mitt romney if he's the nominee hurting himself about the negative campaign because he's driving away npts - naptentindependence that might e crucial. >> among the...
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leaders toward president obama change? >> unlike 2006, 2008, '10 there is no partisan wave. while we began the cycle with congress' low ratings and all these incumbents are going to lose we don't see it now. i wouldn't be shocked with anything from a wash in the house to a democratic gain of ten seats. they need 25. it doesn't sound too far from 25. but it is. there's not enough districts in play for the democrats >> woodruff: it's fascinating most incumbents will be re-elected >> it looks like we're going back to the old story of my incumbent is okay. it's all the other ones who are bad. >> woodruff: we are delighted to have the two of you, stu rothenberg, susan page, thank you >> thanks . >> suarez: now to syria, where the death toll continues to climb. and there are new reports that most of the weapons sent to aid the rebellion are ending up in the hands of islamic extremists. smoke mingled with sunset in aleppo, syria's largest city, as block-by-block battles rage between president bashar al assad fighters and rebels.
leaders toward president obama change? >> unlike 2006, 2008, '10 there is no partisan wave. while we began the cycle with congress' low ratings and all these incumbents are going to lose we don't see it now. i wouldn't be shocked with anything from a wash in the house to a democratic gain of ten seats. they need 25. it doesn't sound too far from 25. but it is. there's not enough districts in play for the democrats >> woodruff: it's fascinating most incumbents will be re-elected...
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he said obama spent too much time at however. and bain capital, it's important to understand, we're hearing both side of the campaign, 30-second commercials, but in the book we talk about 15 years and 100 deals so, that tells you there's a lot more there. it's an interesting story that tells you about the kind of person he and is what he would try to bring to the table. >> warner: so talk about what kind of person he is, if you spent 15 years in that pressure cooker, the pressure to perform for yourself, your stockholders, pressure to cinch a deal, do you see those same qualities coming to him as a candidate, shaping him as a candidate? >> we haven't had that many business people who have become successful presidents, so it's not clear that being in business is necessarily the best qualifier. he also was governor, which is a more direct experience. but at bain capital the way he worked was as a business consultant and running a large investment fund. so you had to put in about a million dollars to be in this fund and he would inv
he said obama spent too much time at however. and bain capital, it's important to understand, we're hearing both side of the campaign, 30-second commercials, but in the book we talk about 15 years and 100 deals so, that tells you there's a lot more there. it's an interesting story that tells you about the kind of person he and is what he would try to bring to the table. >> warner: so talk about what kind of person he is, if you spent 15 years in that pressure cooker, the pressure to...
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for is to give permission to people who voted for president obama in 2008, who liked president obama but who has been disappointed and want to be convinced that mitt romney could be better. it's not a question of disloyalty to the president or animosity just for the country's sake that you wanted... that's what he's trying to communicate, i believe. >> does that change the job, then, or how does it affect the job that mitt romney has had what paul ryan told us last night? >> well, he did the indictment and i thought he did it pretty well. there's been some criticism of ryan that there were some factual errors and he didn't tell it the way a journalist would tell it. he described the simpson-bowles commission which did not go through, as if it was obama's fault, neglecting to mention he voted against it. so there were some things like that. that's politics. >> woodruff: selective rather than... >> if you were editing him for a college paper you would say "you have to give the other side here." but this is politics. but i thought what he did was lay out the prosecutorial case. again, a
for is to give permission to people who voted for president obama in 2008, who liked president obama but who has been disappointed and want to be convinced that mitt romney could be better. it's not a question of disloyalty to the president or animosity just for the country's sake that you wanted... that's what he's trying to communicate, i believe. >> does that change the job, then, or how does it affect the job that mitt romney has had what paul ryan told us last night? >> well,...